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At St. Michael’s hospital, staff aren’t just facing the pressures of the health care system — they’re facing a homelessness crisis as people turn to ERs for shelter when they have nowhere else to go. An emergency room chief says more than 4,500 homeless Torontonians entered the trauma centre in the last year, about 15 per cent of them because they had no alternative shelter options.
“You can’t have someone who says, ‘good luck on your own, hope you can swim.’ You have to believe someone is in your corner, someone is holding your hand … Someone is going to walk with you all the way.”According to new guidance from the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction, no amount of alcohol is good for your health and anything more than two drinks a week increases the risk for alcohol-related consequences like injury or cancer.
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